Description: AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED SNAPSHOT PHOTO Kathleen Howard (1884 – 1956) was a Canadian-born American opera singer, magazine editor, and character actress from the mid-1930s through the 1940s.She was born in Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada on July 27, 1884. In 1906, Howard began her career in opera in Germany. Following eight years of singing in Berlin, she performed concerts in Belgium, England, Germany, Holland, and Scandinavia. She arrived in America in 1913 and joined the Metropolitan Opera in 1916. She remained a leading Met artist through 1928, taking major and secondary roles.Howard created the role of Zita in Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918. Until World War I, Howard was part of the repertory system in the opera houses of Metz and Darmstadt. Beginning in 1918, for four years, Howard was the fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar magazine and while in that post was also president of Fashion Group International. She resigned to begin acting in films.Her film debut came in Death Takes a Holiday (1934).She played Amelia, the nagging, shrewish wife of W.C. Fields in It's a Gift (1934), and dtarred in two other Fields films: You're Telling Me! (1934) and Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935).Howard died on April 15, 1956, aged 71, in Hollywood, California after a long illness. She was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York.CREDITS 1934 Death Takes a HolidayPrincess Maria W C FIELDS You're Telling Me! Mrs. Edward Quimby Murchison One More RiverLady Charwell Once to Every BachelorAunt Henrietta Lady by ChoiceMrs. Mills W C FIELDS It's a GiftMrs. Amelia Bissonette 1935 W C FIELDS Man on the Flying TrapezeLeona Wolfinger 1937 Stolen HolidayMadame Delphine The Hit ParadeMrs. Barrett 1938 When G-Men Step InMrs. Drake Letter of IntroductionAunt Jonnie in Play Crime Takes a HolidayMrs. Allen, Governor's Wife 1939 Three Smart Girls Grow UpMrs. Kittenhaven RioMme. Adrienne Lamartine Little AccidentMrs. Allerton First LoveMiss Wiggins 1940 Outside the Three-Mile LimitSocialite Mystery Sea RaiderMaggie Clancy Young PeopleHester Appleby Five Little Peppers in TroubleMrs. Wilcox One Night in the TropicsJudge McCracken 1941 HAROLD LLOYD A Girl, a Guy and a GobJawme Duncan Sweetheart of the CampusMrs. Minnie Lambeth Sparr Blossoms in the DustMrs. Sarah Keats Miss PollyMrs. Minerva Snodgrass HOWARD HAWKS Ball of FireMiss Bragg 1942 Take a Letter, DarlingAunt Minnie The Mad MartindalesGrandmother Varney Lady in a JamWoman The Magnificent DopeMrs. Page ASTAIRE You Were Never LovelierGrandmother Acuña 1943 Crash DiveMiss Bromley My Kingdom for a CookMrs. Theodore Carter Swing Out the BluesAunt Amanda 1944 Reckless AgeSarah Wadsworth PREMINGER LauraLouise, Ann's Cook 1945 Eadie Was a LadyAunt Priscilla Shady LadyButch BENCHLEY SnafuDean Garrett 1946 Miss Susie Slagle'sMiss Wingate Mysterious IntruderRose Denning Centennial SummerDeborah Danger WomanEddie 1947 Cross My HeartMrs. Klute The Late George ApleyMargaret, the Maid CynthiaMcQuillan The Hal Roach Comedy CarnivalAunt Martha, in 'Curly' 1948 The Bride Goes WildAunt Susan Cry of the CityMiss Pruett's Mother 1950 The Petty GirlProf. Langton Born to Be BadMrs. Bolton Television 1951The Bigelow Theatre1 episode INSURED BOXED SHIPPING
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